Choices
“[It is time to]…take the journey of making very difficult decisions. Start removing things from your life that are not filling your cup & adding things that bring joy in to your life.” – Lisa Hammond.
I believe firmly that if you are not happy you have 3 choices: change your attitude, change the circumstance; or live with it. I will help with the first 2 choices, but I don’t want to listen to you complain about your life when you can do something about it.
Don't Worry, Be Happy
Don’t worry, be happy. This is so true because only 8% of what we worry about ever comes true. So why not adopt the attitude of waiting to worry? You don’t start to worry until something is actually happening. Never worry about what might happen, just about what is happening.
Ourselves
“We did not change as we grew older, we just became more clearly ourselves.” – Lynn Hall
Miguel Ruiz says that we learn that it is safe to take off our masks and be who we truly are, instead of who we think that everyone wants us to be. What I know from experience is that it makes communication a lot easier!
Achieve
“To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.” Leonard Bernstein, Conductor and Composer
You know what this means? It means that we can all achieve something great today! We can all plan and we all say we don’t have enough time. Go forth and conquer!
Thinking
“Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. What you see reflects your thinking and your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see” – From A Course in Miracles
The reticular activator in action – I choose to see wonderful, caring people, who are supporting me in my life.
Attitude
Your attitude is either locking the door or is acting as the key to the door of your success. It’s not what or who you are that holds you back, it’s what you think you’re not.
Patience
“Patience – the gift of being able to see past the emotion” – Rodney Williams
Strong emotions take away clear thinking. They make us panic and think that we must do something now! When you learn to scuba dive they talk to you about breathing. Because when you panic you hold your breath. If you are diving and you hold your breath, you can create an embollism that will kill you. Remembering to breathe will save your life.
When you are in a situation with strong emotions you forget to breathe. While you may not create a life and death situation from not breathing literally; your panic can. When my sister was in the hospital years ago from a car accident there was another guy there. He had skidded out of control and stopped at the edge of the cliff, teetering on the edge, but not over. He panicked and opened the door on the wrong side, and without looking stepped out into air and fell to the bottom of the ravine. The vehicle never did go over. He was paralyzed with a broken back.
We need to be in control of our emotions and the easiest way is to breathe. We may think that we don’t have the time and must make a decision now! But just breathe, take back control and see past the emotion that is threatening to over power you. Don’t step off the cliff, just breathe until the emotion is under control and then decide. Patience is control of the emotions.
Strong emotions take away clear thinking. They make us panic and think that we must do something now! When you learn to scuba dive they talk to you about breathing. Because when you panic you hold your breath. If you are diving and you hold your breath, you can create an embollism that will kill you. Remembering to breathe will save your life.
When you are in a situation with strong emotions you forget to breathe. While you may not create a life and death situation from not breathing literally; your panic can. When my sister was in the hospital years ago from a car accident there was another guy there. He had skidded out of control and stopped at the edge of the cliff, teetering on the edge, but not over. He panicked and opened the door on the wrong side, and without looking stepped out into air and fell to the bottom of the ravine. The vehicle never did go over. He was paralyzed with a broken back.
We need to be in control of our emotions and the easiest way is to breathe. We may think that we don’t have the time and must make a decision now! But just breathe, take back control and see past the emotion that is threatening to over power you. Don’t step off the cliff, just breathe until the emotion is under control and then decide. Patience is control of the emotions.
Bicycle
I bet like me you have been thinking of what you want to happen in 2011. Even though we want to move forward, we sometimes have one foot on the break. Instead close your eyes and imagine that you at the top of a hill on a bicycle. Now push off, lift your legs off the ground, and feel the rush of the wind in your face and that squeal of delight as you gain speed rushing down the hill. Now do that with your goals!
New Year
“The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.” – G.K. Chesterton
Let us live each day with zest, laugh like we’ve never experienced sorrow, and love without reservations. Let’s grow each day to our highest potental & live beyond our greatest hopes & dreams!
Progress
Goals have a “work” feel to them. Too much like a to do chart that we check off. What if instead we kept a “Prosperity Progress” journal instead? Keep it like we are journaling our travels, with doodles, clip art, notating our progress. Some days we get to skip along and other days we wander a little to pick up needed items for the trip ahead. Doesn’t that sound fun?!
Vision
“Your vision will become clear, only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” – Carl Jung
It is the difference between living the life that others want for you, or that you think makes the most logical sense, and living the life of your passions. Wake up & use the gift(s) you were given, so that the “music” that you were given to play is not lost to the world!
Opportunities
Why do they call it an alarm clock? It makes you think that you are waking up to an emergency, like the house is on fire! Why not rename it an opportunity clock? Think of all of the opportunities you are waking up for! You have the opportunity today to accomplish some of your goals, engage your passion, and just be plain joyous!